• September 2016. Russell, Carl (1957). Guns on the early frontiers. Bonanza books. p. 181. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harpers Ferry Model 1803....
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    The Harper's Ferry Model 1805 U.S. martial flintlock pistol manufactured at the Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia (now West Virginia) was the first pistol...
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    The Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory created by the United...
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    such as the Harpers Ferry Model 1803 rifle were issued to riflemen rather than the infantry as a whole and production and issuance of the Model 1855 prior...
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  • Brown Bess Potzdam Musket 1723 M1752 Musket Springfield musket Harpers Ferry Model 1803 M1819 Hall rifle Pattern 1853 Enfield Springfield Rifle Richmond...
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  • at Harpers Ferry. Several differences between the Springfield Model 1795 and the Harpers Ferry Model 1795 have led many to label the Harpers Ferry version...
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  • Ferry Armory Harpers Ferry Model 1803 (USA – rifle – 1803) Harpers Ferry Model 1805 (USA – flintlock pistol – 1805) Harpers Ferry Model 1816 (USA – rifle...
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    unit was equipped with the first American manufactured rifle, the Harpers Ferry Model 1803. Prior to entering the War of 1812, the unit would have seen some...
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    which they descend. The style of the rifles is the same as the Harpers Ferry Model 1803, a half stock rifle (although they also made some with full stock)...
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    rifle, similar to the Harpers Ferry Model 1803 which began production six months after Lewis visited the arsenal. The Model 1803 resembles what became...
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    Arsenal 7.92×57mm Mauser  China 1895 Harpers Ferry Model 1803 Harpers Ferry Armory .525 in lead ball  United States 1803 Hawken rifle Jacob and Samuel Hawken...
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  • 45 ACP) (never issued) Colt M1908 (.380 ACP) (General Officers) Harpers Ferry Model 1805 (.54) High Standard HDM (.22 LR) (Navy SEALs and USMC Force...
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    Benson John (1869). The Pictorial Field-book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 587. ISBN 978-1-4047-5113-2. Walton, Eliakim Persons (1878)...
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    $42 per man, received their equipment (Model 1816 smoothbore flintlock muskets and a few Harper's Ferry Model 1803 Rifles), and were more formally organized...
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    the Union-held town of Harper's Ferry in northern Virginia, and salvaged the machinery used to manufacture Springfield Model 1855 muskets. The machinery...
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    inches and reboring them to a larger caliber), led to the design of the US Model 1803, created six months later. List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed...
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    adopted.[citation needed] Captain James H. Burton, an armorer at the Harpers Ferry Armory, developed a major improvement on Minié's design when he added...
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    was enlisted in July, 1846, about 450 Model 1816 muskets were issued to the infantry. Five 1803 Harpers Ferry rifles were issued to the hunters of company...
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  • namely, the United States Armories at Springfield in Massachusetts and Harpers Ferry in Virginia (later West Virginia), inside contractors to supply the...
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    Gerrit Smith (category John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry)
    member of the Secret Six who financially supported John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, in 1859.: 13–14  Brown's farm, in North Elba, was on land he bought...
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    Toussaint Louverture (category 1803 deaths)
    John Brown claimed influence by Louverture in his plans to invade Harpers Ferry. During the 19th century, African Americans referred to Louverture as...
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    with a model of Glenageary, is currently on display in the National Maritime Museum of Ireland. While some ships such as the cross-channel ferries flew...
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    Debrett's Peerage. 2008. "Lord Moore of Lower Marsh obituary". The Guardian. 21 May 2019. Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Moore...
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    in 1735 before settling in Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia. When Augustine died in 1743, Washington inherited Ferry Farm and ten slaves; his older...
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    constructed. Construction of Big Ben is completed. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. Giuseppe Garibaldi...
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    United States and the peaceful transfer of power. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 from France nearly doubled the territory of the United States. Lingering...
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    Christiana Riot, Nat Turner's slave rebellion, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and other riots interfering with enforcement of the Fugitive Slave...
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    for guns produced at the arsenals at Springfield, Massachusetts and Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the early decades of the 19th century...
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    Paul (ed.). His Soul Goes Marching On. Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. pp. 10–38...
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    England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wales has four commercial ferry ports. Regular ferry services to Ireland operate from Holyhead, Pembroke Dock and Fishguard...
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